1.2 Also the 22 count was followed by Melito, Origen, Eusebius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Epiphanius, Jerome, and Augustine.

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2. Ezra and the men of the Great Synagogue

The most prevalent answer in some circles was that of a sixteenth-century Jewish teacher named Elias Levita (d. AD 1549) Ezra and his associates, the men of the Great Synagogue, established both the correct text, the correct number, and the arrangement of the books of the Bible. But neither Scripture itself nor history gives us any warrant for linking Ezra or a Great Synagogue to a closing of the canon.

Kaiser, Toward Rediscovering the Old Testament, 38

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Neither is the tradition drawn from 4 Esdras 14 - which supposes that all the sacred books were burned with the temple in 586 BC, thereby necessitating that Ezra and his five companions rewrite them in forty days and forty nights- of much help either, for this too is completely and unsubstantiated by any external historical data.

Kaiser, Toward Rediscovering the Old Testament, 38

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3. The Council of Jamnia (or Jabne, a town not far south of Joppa, close to the Mediterranean coast)

"Even in the frequently alleged work of the Council of Jamnia in its two meetings in AD 90 and 118 cannot be credited with declaring what is canonical and what is not.... This Jamnia hypothesis, concluded Jack P. Lewis, appears to be one of those things that has come to be true due to frequent repetition of the assertion rather than to its being actually supported by evidence (J. P. Lewis, What Do We Mean by Jabneh? Journal of Bible and Religion 32 (1964), 132).... Jamnia, however, gives no evidence of settling or even discussing the question of the canon." Kaiser, 38

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4. Progressive Canonization Theory

"Within the corpus of the writings themselves there is both the assertion of the writers that their writings have been received from and guided by the revelatory and inspiring work of the Holy Spirit and the assertion that what has been written was to be collected with the other books that had made a similar claim and were likewise treated as authoritative." Kaiser, 39

5. NT Witness

5.1 Lk 24.44 Law, Prophets and Psalms as the three fold division of the Baba Bathra.

5.2 Matt 5.17 7.12 22.40 Acts 13.15 have the Law and the Prophets

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5.3 Lk 24.27 has Moses and all the Prophets

5.4 Matt 23.34-35

6. Roger Beckwith

The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church. Grand Rapids Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1985.

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